Cuff-holder



(No Model.) I G. E. MEAD.

CUFF HOLDER.

No. 453,199; Patented June 2, 1891.

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CHARLES E. MEAD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,199, dated June 2, 1891.

Application filed October 10, 1890. Serial No. 367,708. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. MEAD, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and Improved Cuff-Fastener, of which the following is a description.

The fastener to which my invention relates is designed, primarily, to secure a cuff to the coat-sleeve by'means of the rear or inward button-holes. Certain features of the invention are, however, applicable to devices such as cuff-buttons of the class known as separable buttons.

The object of my invention is to attain greater simplicity, durability, and cheapness of manufacture; and said invention consists in certain improvements embodied in the construction described below, the essential features of which are closely defined in the claim appended to this specification.

My preferred construction is shown in the two figures of the drawings, of which Figure 1 is a perspective under View of the head of the fastener; and Fig. 2 is area'r View of same, showing the shank of the button in section.

The fastening consists of a single strip of spring metal bent to forma spring-back A and two flat overlapping plates B B, each of said plates bearing ears I) b I) Z), bent over the other plate, soas to hold the two plates together and allow them to slide back and forth, the one over the other. In the plates 13 B round holes b b are seen, which are normally held out of register by the spring-back A, but which can be placed in line by compressing the latter longitudinally. Upon the back A is soldered a pin 0, here of the common form known as safety-pin. It is of course obvious that any other pinning device might be substituted.

In use the fastening is placed within the coat-sleeve and secured by means of the pin C to the inside thereof, where it will be concealed. An ordinary bone or pearl button, such as is seen below in Fig. 2, is inserted in the rear button-holes'of the cuff, and the fastener then pressed together until the holes b b register, when it is slipped over the head of the button and released to clasp the shank of the button, as seen in Fig. 2.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As an improved article of manufacture, a fastener constructed from a strip of spring metal bent to form the spring-back A and the flat plates 13 B, loosely held together by the ears I) b and containing the holes 11 11 normally held out of register by the spring-back, but which may be brought into line against the force of said spring, and having a pin device secured to the back A, substantially as described.

CHAS. E. MEAD.

\Vitnesses:

H. BITNER, S. LUNDEEN. 

